UW-Madison’s Mitchell Nathan and Martha Alibali took part in a virtual panel discussion on May 19 hosted by the Embodied Mathematical Imagination & Cognition (EMIC) team. The 90-minute event — titled “Instructional Gestures for Classrooms and On-Line Mathematics Learning” — was recorded and can be accessed via this EMIC web page. The panel focused its efforts on examining …
Each May, the UW–Madison Division of the Arts celebrates artistic achievement, recognizes service to the arts, and supports arts research by bestowing the Awards in the Creative Arts. And once again, artists associated with the School of Education were recipients of these honors. Fred Stonehouse received the Creative Arts Award and Leslie Smith III was recognized …
UW–Madison’s Caleb Probst was introduced to the Grand Challenges program during his first year as a master’s student with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. After sharing some of his interests with advisor Erica Halverson, she recommended he consider joining “What the Moon Saw” — a Grand Challenges project that combined children’s theater with technology. …
UW-Madison’s Diana Rodríguez Gómez earlier this spring was named the winner of the 2020 Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) Junior Faculty Teaching Award. Rodríguez Gómez is a native of Colombia who became an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies in January 2019. Her research agenda engages with the fields of anthropology …
UW-Madison’s Jerlando Jackson co-authored a recent article published in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education that’s titled, “Mixed-reality simulations to build capacity for advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the geosciences.” Jackson is the School of Education’s Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy …
UW-Madison’s John Baldacchino recently released two new books, “Sejjieħ il-Ħsieb: Limitu u Ħelsien (Rubblewalls of Thought: Limit and Freedom)” and “Educing Ivan Illich: Reform, Contingency, and Disestablishment.” Baldacchino is a professor with the School of Education’s Art Department. Written in his mother tongue, Maltese, “Sejjieħ il-Ħsieb” is Baldacchino’s first book of philosophy. This work takes a poetic yet rigorous …
UW-Madison’s Pauline Ho recently received the UW-Madison Global Health Institute’s (GHI) Graduate Student Award Grant. Ho is a PhD student within the human development area of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. The award will fund her project, “Perceived Racial Discrimination and Mental Health: The Role of Meaning-making and Residential History.” This work was selected …
There are clear differences between men and women when it comes to how blood flow within their brains respond to stressors. The incidence of strokes, for example, is much lower in females until they experience menopause. After their hormone level changes, their risk rises. Yet there is little known about why this is the case. …
UW-Madison alumnus Terrance L. Green is one of five early career researchers from across the nation to receive a 2020 William T. Grant Scholars award. Launched in 1982, this program supports the professional development of promising researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences who have received their terminal degrees within the past seven years. …
A team of early math education experts from across the country has pooled its expertise to develop a set of free, research-based learn-at-home materials geared toward children from birth to age 8. The “At-Home Early Math Learning Kit for Families,” created by the DREME Network’s Family Math team, is especially valuable as many people are …